The CFB Shilo Military Family Resource Centre staff team up with Brandon Mayor Jeff Fawcett as he proclaims April in the city as Teal Up month – Month of the Military Child. (Photo: K-J Millar/Shilo Stag Media)
K-J Millar
Shilo Stag Media
The City of Brandon has declared April as the month of the military child, with Mayor Jeff Fawcett making an official proclamation at a city hall flag-raising ceremony on April 9.
“Eighty-one thousand Military children experience parental absence each year due to Canadian Armed Forces service. Whereas 10,000 military families relocate across the country,” Mayor Fawcett said in his proclamation in council chambers, prior to a Teal Up flag raising in front of city hall.
“Military children face significant challenges throughout their young lives and overcome them.”
“Military Family Resource Centers across the country honour the resilience of military children on the last Monday of April, during the month of the military child. This year, Manitoban Canadians are encouraged to ‘Teal Up’ for military children on Monday, April 29.”
“Now, therefore, I, Jeff Fawcett, Mayor of the City of Brandon, in the province of Manitoba, do declare the last Monday in April to be Teal-Up Day in the city of Brandon.”
Brandon City Mayor Jeff Fawcett is assisted by military child Lyndsay Ness in raising the Teal Up Flag outside City Hall to honour the resilience of military children, on April 9. The mayor proclaimed April 29 as Teal Up Day in the city. (Photo: K-J Millar/Shilo Stag Media)
Brandon City Mayor Jeff Fawcett and Executive Director of the CFB Shilo Military Family Resource Center Rob Lavin share the celebration of honouring military children at the Teal Up flag-raising outside city hall on April 9. (Photo: K-J Millar/Shilo Stag Media)
The CFB Shilo MFRC staff teamed up with Brandon City Hall staff on April 9 to proclaim April as the month of the military child. (Photo: K-J Millar/Shilo Stag Media)
Brandon City Mayor Jeff Fawcett raises the Teal Up flag in front of City Hall on April 9. Fawcett proclaimed April 29 as “Teal Up Day” in the city, encouraging everyone to wear teal in honour of military children and their resilience. (Photo: K-J Millar/Shilo Stag Media)